We’ll start in the literary corner today, with a recommendation that is a bit ironic since it was inspired by a passionate screed against asking artists to work for free and involves my suggesting that you get the Kindle edition of W. Somerset Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage” which is free.However, Maugham is dead and wouldn’t […]
I don’t think you can call Jeremy Banx’s work “deceptively simple” because the depth in his simple work is not at all deceptive or hidden.In this case, the commentary on Trump and Barr etc is like Dali’s (Duh. Picasso. See comments) bicycle-bull sculpture in that, yes, you immediately see the simplicity but you also immediately […]
So the Primary is over and we’re back to being invisible.Someone will ask for our vote in November, but with only four electoral votes, that’s all they’ll do: Ask. The begging is now officially over.And I guess I’m not an influencer after all, because I read a couple of analyses of the vote that expressed […]
We’ll let New Yorker cartoonist Lila Ash lead off today, though I’m hoping it won’t take months for the nattering nabobs to stop talking about caucuses.I’d like today’s New Hampshire Primary to shift their attention away from whatever happened or didn’t happen or should have happened in Iowa, not because what happens here will be […]
Let’s start with a timely Juxtaposition:(Darrin Bell)(Jeff Danziger)Bell is specifically referring to the Iowa Caucus, while Danziger seems more to be looking towards tomorrow’s NH Primary, but they’re both casting the remainder of the race as being between Pete and Bernie.It’s part of the horserace style of reporting that is the bane of small-d democratic […]
Peter Brookes gets to do a “torn speech” cartoon here for a couple of reasons, the first being that I admire his artwork.Another is that I’m willing to forgive a furriner for not realizing that the Democrats never expected to remove Trump from office, and I’m also willing to accept that Dear Leader is treating […]
Tom Tomorrow scores in a time when it’s hard to make more than one valid argument, never mind popping off nine of them.Most of the multi-panel commentators at the moment seem to start well and then either fade to pointlessness or wander off into delusional conspiracy theories. Granted, there are prolific one-panel cartoonists who drop […]
Wiley gets to lead off today because this Non Sequitur sparked two — count them, two! — personal memories of no particular significance.The first involves names, because everyone named “Peterson” gets called “Pete”at some point. My son was Pete in the Navy in his day, his son-in-law is Pete in the Navy now because he […]
Well, perhaps not so much of a bang as a whimper, but I like David Horsey’s take on the Iowa Caucus tech failure because the donkey has a full cloud of balloons in hand but is focusing on the one that burst, or fizzled, or whatever.There’s been a lot of chatter over the failure of […]
I haven’t done an exact count, but there appear to be approximately a kabillion political cartoons this morning explaining that the technical failures in reporting the results of the Iowa Caucus show that the Democrats are doomed, Trump will win and we can all go home now.Only Pat Bagley draws my point of view, which […]
Matt Wuerker admittedly picks a bit of low-hanging fruit on this one, going for an obvious commentary on a ridiculous Trump blunder, but it beats hell out of the more obvious, less detailed wisecracks involving a Sharpie and harking back to Dear Leader’s ridiculous re-drawing of a weather map.Both play upon the fact that the […]
Posting this Joy of Tech is a bit of a cheat, given that they’ve posted a new cartoon since, but it states the situation so well that I’m giving myself permission to break my own rules.I have two elements of concern with Facebook.Privacy is one, though I continue to subscribe to the theory that the […]
The blog’s 10th anniversary is Thursday, but we’ll celebrate it today because cartoonists often use Sunday to mark something in the coming week and also because I have nothing more to say at the moment about impeachment or coronavirus.So there is the first Comic Strip of the Day entry, back when it truly was one […]
I’ve complained about cartoonists taking their own sweet time to respond to breaking news but there was no such problem Friday, as the GOP Senators voted, as RJ Matson puts it in an echo of Watergate, not to hear any witnesses or see any evidence.He’s not the only cartoonist to summon the ghost of Richard […]
It’s been a while since Sir Stewart has made an appearance in Alex, but then it had been a while since Warren Buffett made an appearance and here they both are, Sir Stewart tanking a fictional financial company while Buffett walks away from newspapers, having sold the Buffalo News and his other newspaper holdings to […]